A shabby-looking fellow was charged at Bow Street, yesterday evening,
with selling seditious publications among the crowd assembled before the hustings in Covent Garden. One of the papers was filled 'with rigmarole like the following.
"Alas! poor William Guelph! he is merely the puppet of a base scoundrelo- tracy. Suffice it for the present, to maintain, that neither the hereditary puppet of the Aristocrats, nor the hereditary self-constituted lawmakers can actually prevent the Unrepresented from acquiring their Elective Rights."
Mr. Minshull called upon the prisoner to enter into his own recog- rfizances for 4001., and produce two good sureties in 2001. each, to answer for his appearance at the Sessions. He was then sent to the lock-up room.
A man named Medford John Spring, who is supposed to be one of 'Coster's gang of swindlers, was committed by the Lord Mayor on Wednesday, to take his trial on a charge of forging the acceptance of 3'Ir. James Gore, of No. 2, Camomile Street, to a bill of exchange for twenty-nine pounds fourteen shillings.
On Thursday, Charles Twight, driver of the "Sir Walter Scott"
, omnibus, and James Waglan, driver of the " Barber," were charged at the Thames Police Office with furious driving. Evidence was given as to the furious rate at which they raced along Shadwell High Street; and it was stated that the inhabitants were kept in such alarm, that they were afraid to send their children out of doors. Mr. Ballantine inflicted the full penalty of five pounds on each defendant, and costs.
William Richardson, a young soldier belonging to the 2d Battalion of the Coldstream Guards, was brought on Thursday to the Union Ball Office, charged with attempting to steal a watch and chain from the shop of Mr. Hobbs, in Great Surry Street. He thrust his hand through a pane of plate glass, value 4L, and ran away with the watch. 'Jr. Hobbs ran after him, and secured him, and recovered his watch. The Sergeant of the company to which be belonged said, that he had rio doubt the man had committed the theft in order to be transported, and thus get rid of his wife, who was a terrible annoyance to him. Mr. Chambers, the Magistrate, ordered him to be remanded, that the story about his wife might be inquired into.
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